The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-19
WITHOUT WARNING.
Death Cvertakes a Big Train
Load Of Excursionists.
1t Crashes Through burning Bridge
Near Chatsworth, IlL-Over 100 Killed
and 200 or 800 Injured-yan-
dals Rob Victims.
SCORES OF LIVES LOST.

/ railway dlsdS ter on record occurred at a
| late hour Wednesday night, on the Toledo,
| Peoria & Western railroad, near Chats
| worth, a village about eighty miles from
| Chicago. A special train consisting of six
| day coaches, six sleeping-cars and three
| baggage-cars, and carrying $50 excursion
/ lists bound for Niagara Falls, went through
| a burning wooden culvert three miles east
| of Chatsworth. Two engines were
1 pulling the train, the first of which passed
| over the culvert in safety. The second en-
| CINE went down, the baggage and day.
coaches followed, and in flash the wreck
was in flames, communicated from the
| burning culvert. The scenes that
| followed were narrowing in the
extreme. For four hours the unin-
| jured passengers and trainmen labored
| to smother the fire with earth, and
meantime the work of recovering the dead
and injured was vigorously prosecuted.
! At a late hour last night lis dead bodies
/ had been recovered The number of in
| jured was stated approximately at 100,
many of whom are fatally hurt. The
| wounded were removed to Chats
worth and Piper City, and cared for as
well as possible until assistance was OBJ
tanned from larger towns. Thieves I'M
| proved the opportunity to plumber the
dead and dying, and scores of empty
poesretbooks found at the scene of the
wreck testified to the industry with which
/ thty prosecuted their nefarious work. A
majority of the victims lived at Peoria.
CHICAGO, Aug. IA dispatch from
Chatsworth to the Tribune of this CITY,
\ dated at three o'clock this morning says
| that as something less than 100 bodies have
been found, the estimate of 11S dead is
| probably excessive. AS far as ascertained
| up to two o'clock this morning the dead
will aumber about ninety, although
! there are about twelve or fifteen
not yet accounted for. 1t is sup
| posed that their bodies have been
| ground into powder in the wreck 1t is
| almost certain that all the dead bodies have
| not been recovered.
| CHATsWoRTH, Ill, Aug. IA special
excursion train of twenty cars, with about
! $50 people on board, was wrecked yester-
| day morning at point about three miles
east of here on the Toledo, Peoria C West
ern railroad, Over 100 persons were
killed and probably from $50 to 800 Sc
| riously injured. No accurate record has
| been kept of the number of bodies
taken from the wreck - every thing
mere is chaos = but seventy one dead
bodies have been brought to Chats worth,
aad, as near as can be estimated, about
thirty others have been taken to the homes
| OF theiE friends or are lying at adjacent
Villages and farm houses. There are about
| eighty wounded here and about ninety at
Piper City, the first station west of the
Wre ok. The following is list of the dead
| AMI wounded:
| THE DEAD. 4.
Mrs. Florence CroswelL wife of A. B. eros.
| well, OF Kankaizee, Ill; Mrs. Peyton NJ Press;
/ w. FL. Potter, Bushnell, ILL.,; Mrs j. M, CLAW.
Eureka, Ill.,; James D. Richard, Franlslin.
| Neb.; Mrs Cording, Forest, ILL.,; Mrs. Breeze,
| Peoria; Jesse Meek, Jr., Eureka, Ill; Mrs. w.
| Garretson, Peoria; r. e. Strahan, Peoria; Mrs
stephens, Peoria; Michael Regain, Bingham.
ton. N. Y; William Craig Cuba, Ill; Henry
4 Hicken, Pekin, ILL.,; an unknown wom-
an, supposed to be Mrs. Voorhees,.
| of Peoria; William Stevens Peoria; Noah
Haresmill Canton, Ill; Melville Smith,
Peoria; George A. Smith, Peoria; E. F. Adams,
FairDury, ILL.,, or at lest bought his ticket
there; - Travillo, Peoria W. H Lott, Elm.
wood, ILL.,; Ada Wefman, Peoria Mrs. w AL
Yen, Peoria; Mrs. Valego, PEORIA a railroad
4 man from Peoria, name unknown; Mrs E. B.
/ Mcclure and baby, Peoria; Mrs Miller, Peoria:
4 Mrs. James Dale Peoria; William Bell. Pc
oria; F. D. Wynette, cashier of the German In
surance Company, Peoria; e. Godell, Peoria;
4 Rev. William L. Collins, Galesburg, Ill; Isaac
Bodey, Morrison, Whiteside County, ILL.,; j. s.
Kelley, Bredes Station, I'LL; Mrs. John
Murphy, Peoria; an unknown woman, with
name Lolita on gold ring; Ona Sparch, Green
Valley, ILL., ]. D. McFadden, Peoria; Captain
D@hlke, Peoria; J. A. Martin, Bloomington, iii.
Engineer McClintoclz, of the second engine Of
traaEl r. E. Stockan, Peoria; Miss Stephens and
father; M. Smith, Metamore, ILL.,; Mrs Tim
merman, Peoria; Rosa and Maggie Murphy
Peoria; Miss Maggie Malvow, Peoria; Miss
Meal, Mossyille, Ill Enliline Carrithers Ev
ans Ill; Jess Meek, Eureka, ILL.,; Sherman
Brlmheld, H.; May Laws; Elizabeth
/ Cress, Washington, Ill; Mrs. e
I D. Stoddard, West Point, Ia; Mrs
4 Pearl Adams, Peoria; Pearl French, PEG
ria; W. Gereretsen, Peoria; Addie Webster
Peoria; Mr. Wright, PEORIA Mrs. William Ball
and daughter, PEORIA Mr.. E. Godell and son
Galesburg; Mr.. John Murphy, Peoria; Henry
I Slegelson, Keokuk Ia; John A. Moore, Jack
sonVlile, ILL.,; j. D. McFadden. Peoria; j. A.
Green, Breeds Station; Mrs. Marsh, Syracuse,
I y. Y; T. p. Vauxloo, Galeshurg; Paul Zeitler
Pekin.
In addition to the above list there have
been found the dead bodies of twenty per-
sons whose names are unknown Among
them were two women with infants
clasped in their arms.
THE WOUNDED
The following is list of the wounded;
Miss Emma Alter, West Point Ia.; Homer
Bond, a saloon-keeper, of Colchester, Ill Mrs
Mary Ii. Grant, of No. 1909 North Madison
street, Peoria; Robert Zimmerman, druggist
Peoria, and his wife; Miss Mary Mories, OF
! No. 223 Taylor street, Peoria; N. Chellew,
the miller and wife, of Glassford, Ill,
Theodore Godel, a butcher from Peoria; Mrs,
4 Il. Fl. Clark, Rootstown, o.; E. F, French Pc
oria; Elton Waters, Peoria; Mrs Laws and
daughter, Sara May, of Eureka, ILL.,; H B.
Lawrence Burlington, Ia; c. H. Carter Jr,
of No. SIG Maple street. Burlington, Ia: John
McMaRter, of No. 100 Saratoga street, Peoria;
| J. W. Stearns, Green Valley, Ill.,; John Steen,
VANS Grove, Ill.,; Miss Ann Kellogg, Taze-
well County, ILL.,; Mrs DR.. A. J. WEIGH of the
Spring Hill Park Sanitarium, Peoria Mrs. w.
| H. Lott Elmwood, H.; Mrs Isaac Rodney,
| Morrison, Whiteside County, ILL.,; Mrs.
| Emma Region and son, Peoria; John
| Fry, Peoria; H. L. Ogden, Grayton. Ill
Florence Boucher, Bayard Ia; Pat Brady, Gil
4 man, ILL.,; Sophia Pauline, Peoria; G. w.
Young, West Jersey; @. w. Swank. West Jer-
sey; G. A. Scott, Toulin, Ill; Thomas Trmms,
| Park Ridge, H.; Mrs. Edith Chellew, Glass
ford, ILL.,; Joe Neal, Mossvilie ILL.,; Mrs. Joe
| Neal, Mossville, Ill; Migs Julia Valdejo,
| Peoria; Abbie Edmonds, Disco. H.; DR.. E.
P. Hazen, Fort Madison, Ia. Mrs. H G. Thorne.
Risk, Ill. /; Mrs Thomas McAToy, Peoria; Mrs. L
| w. Grant, Peoria, Otto Johnson, Burlington,
Ia: G. w Cress, Washington, H.; j. E. Dech-
man, Peoria; Madge T. Harris, Peoria; Arthur
| MrCarty, Eureka, Ill.,: David Crawford Hilton,
H.; Mrs. Henry Waters, Peoria; A. j. Kelly, a
| farmer from Fulton County, Ill; Miss Julia
| ValdeJo, Peoria Mrs. DR.. Z. B. Hazen Fort
Madison, Ia: E. D. Stoddard, West Point, Ia.
Artie Stoddard, West Point, Ia; J. Hicks,
Chilhcothe, Ill; DR.. G. Auringer. Detroit, Mich
Mrs. Peterson, Peoria; Andrew BEcGraw, Peo-
| ria; Mrs. Summers, Peoria; Annie Waters.
| Peoria; Mrs. NJ. Smith, Galesburg, Ill; c. p
| Van Lew, Galesburg, ILL.,; j. v. Bogart, Claire,
| Ill. Mr.. Regain, Peoria; Mrs. Strachan, SYRIA
| cuses N Y; Mrs. w. NJ. Smith, Abingdon ILL., !;
A. ". Smith, Peoria; Mrs. Blaisdell, Bradford,
| Ill.,; Miss Pearl Weinnette, Peoria; Miss
/ Eliza Mcdonald, Roberts, H.; Mrs. Valen-
| tine, Peoria; Miss Forbes, Washington H. !;
Mrs. I. NJ. Barton, Tonica, H.; William
Forbes, Elmwood, Ill; A. T. Mckee, fireman,
| of La Harpe, ILL.,; G. B. Nnsum, a woodturner
| of Canton, ILL.,; William Bnith, Peoria; Fl.
! Abraham, the cigar manufacturer of
South Water street, Ch.eago: David Craw-
ford, Peoria; Adam Schaamberger, Peoria;
Frank Snadicker, Abingdon H.; Daniel Rock,
| Rosefeld, Ill. A. C. Jordaa, Danville Ia: G.
A. Green, Danville. Ia; Mrs, C. E. Allen. CAFES
/ burg, H.; w. z. Ellis, Peoria; Minnie Vaughs-